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  They Went Another Way - A...

  Bruce Eric Kaplan

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  This program is read by the author.A darkly comic memoir about being a working creative person in a world that is growing ever more dysfunctional, by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and television writer Bruce Eric Kaplan In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a television writer in Los Angeles. He started a journal to keep from going mad, which eventually became They Went Another Way.The book’s through line traces his attempt to get a television project set up in the increasingly Byzantine world of Hollywood. But as he details the project’s ups and downs, Kaplan finds himself ruminating not only on show business but also on today’s political and social issues, on old movies and TV shows and music, on his family, on his friends, on his past, on his failing heating system, and on all the dead birds thatkeep showing up in his backyard.This hilarious and surprisingly moving book is about life—about art, about love, about alienation, about connection, about ugliness and beauty, about disappointment, wonder, and hope. In short, it is about everything.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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  Writing Wrongly - The ongoing...

  Thomas Corfield

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  "When the whole world's against you, at least it's something to lean on." 
  When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to aspire to and book burnings become rife. The publishing industry is left hemorrhaging credibility and teeters on the brink of collapse. Its recovery is not a matter of removing said books, or even destroying them: the same must be done to the mind responsible. 
  Thomas may be the worst writer to have ever lived, but if he’s not careful, he won’t be doing much of that, either. 
  This Sortabiography is the story of one writer against the entire publishing industry. There’s lots of swearing and temper tantrums, as well as a brand new psychiatric illness. There’s also an excellent café scene, which, although short, is worth mentioning. 
   “Dreadful. The title says it all. Except about it being dreadful. ” - Carmen Schneider. Acquisitions Editor, PBA. 
  “The publishing industry is in upheaval, it’s true. But this just rubs balsamic vinegar into its wounds and garnishes it with slices of turd.” – Robert Tasher. MD, Banquet Press. 
  “It’s ebooks like this that should have the internet banned.” - Malcolm Shrot-Faith, Literary Agent.

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  Adrian Mole: The Wilderness...

  Sue Townsend

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  The fourth book in Adrian Mole's diaries, where we catch up with a hapless Adrian and his desperate attempts to win back the love of his life. 
   
  Thursday January 3rd 
   
  I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. 
   
  Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. 
   
  Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped. 
   
  But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness . . . 
   
   
  'A very, very funny book' SUNDAY TIMES 
   
  'The funniest person in the world' CAITLIN MORA

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  The One That Didn't Get Away

  Tom Quinn

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  The One That Didn't Get Away celebrates the triumphant days and victorious moments for game, coarse and sea anglers from the past two centuries. Following Tom Quinn's previous book Great Angling Disasters, he has compiled this collection of archive articles and extracts, which captures the excitement, skill and satisfaction of successful angling expeditions. Taking readers from rivers to seas and all points of the compass, this is a wonderful chronicle filled with the highlights of fishing.
  
  Anglers will find much here to entertain and delight them – and to remind them why the next best thing to fishing is reading about it!

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  Mr Taffle's Pants of Insanity

  Daniel Eric Finkel

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  All Mr. Taffle wants to do is be crowned the Mighty Warlord of his high tech sales cult. But there’s two things standing in his way: He sucks at almost everything and has a putrid sense of fashion. So, when he buys a pair of leather pants, them turning out to be insane isn’t all that shocking. 
  Not only does his pants hypnotically attract the most bizarre characters that cross their path, but they also act as a magnet that pulls whoever is wearing them to the most bizarre place on Earth. 
  Hidden under the walls and under the streets of downtown is a secret world built by a radically experimental artists using alien technology with unlimited funds. 
  Mr. Taffle must navigate this surreal and dangerous labyrinth, not only to make it back to the sales extravaganza on time, but also to save his ex-girlfriend who was way out of his league and pulverized his heart. 
   In the end, will Mr. Taffle’s pants actually help them to escape or are they really part of a grander scheme with catastrophic consequences? 
  You’ll love this AWARD WINNING Douglas Adamsesque mind blowing comedy! 
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  Ice Pick in the Ivy

  Dale Mayer

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  Book 9: Lovely Lethal GardensRiches to rags. ... Chaos never calms. ... Time fades memories. ... Or at least most of them!Who knew two small maker’s marks could lead to such chaos? Doreen has been enjoying a few well-earned days of peace and quiet after solving her last mystery. But all good things must come to an end. Like when Thaddeus, her independently minded African gray parrot, digs up two rectangular metal pieces from the path along the creek. Then Doreen is sent down another rabbit hole of the past: connecting the dots from a long-defunct tool repair company and a young girl who disappeared at the same time.Corporal Mack Moreau doesn’t think these events are connected. He doesn’t believe the spate of recent deaths is suspiciously tied in either. Mack wants Doreen to focus on the materials and the cost analysis to replace her backyard deck and to leave the detecting to him. But how can she, when she knows so much more is going on than Mack believes?Heart attacks, unfair wills, and a missing ice pick are all related. She just needs to understand how …

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